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Bobcat Climbs Cactus To Escape Mountain Lion [w/pix]
KPHO.com ^ | 4/7/11

Posted on 04/08/2011 12:08:09 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows

PHOENIX -- Who knew that a bobcat could climb a plant with millions of sharp spines without injury?

Photographer Curt Fonger captured some great images of a bobcat that climbed a saguaro Tuesday.

Fonger's friend says the bobcat ran through the grounds at Smiling Dog Landscape in Gold Canyon.

A mountain lion was running after the bobcat, probably looking for breakfast.

Fonger's friend said the bobcat clawed its way to the top of the cactus and stared back down at the mountain lion.

The bobcat stayed up there all day long. The mountain lion eventually lost interest and wandered off.

Curt Fonger, who's been taking wildlife photographs for 40 years, says this was his most memorable shoot ever.

"When he looked down at me, those beautiful amber eyes with those dark slits said it all. It was so refreshing to be able to personally witness this bobcat at that precise moment," Fonger said. "A story of survival. He wasn't nervous or frightened. Instead he had a personified "Calm after the Storm" demeanor. A lesson more of us could learn from."

Fonger said the creature even took a "bobcatnap" during the morning. How comfy could that be?

"In my 40 years of photography this was without doubt a defining moment in being at the right place at the right time. I'm still smiling a day later," Fonger said.

(Excerpt) Read more at kpho.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: kittyping
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To: TheOldLady

21 posted on 04/08/2011 9:11:50 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: who knows what evil?

22 posted on 04/08/2011 9:13:10 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
AMAZING images. Thanks for posting SA&!


23 posted on 04/08/2011 9:17:11 AM PDT by Daffynition (DBKP ~ Death By 1000 Papercuts)
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To: Markos33

I thought bobcats didn’t have a tail?


24 posted on 04/08/2011 9:17:52 AM PDT by Ro_Thunder (I sure hope there is a New Morning in America soon. All this hope and change is leaving me depressed)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Haven’t seen him in a while... :-)


25 posted on 04/08/2011 9:18:12 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: JoeProBono; Slings and Arrows

26 posted on 04/08/2011 9:19:39 AM PDT by Daffynition (DBKP ~ Death By 1000 Papercuts)
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To: Slings and Arrows

I’m outa here!


27 posted on 04/08/2011 9:22:24 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: Daffynition

Kittehs can be so formal.


28 posted on 04/08/2011 10:22:31 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

That bobcat is a beautiful kitteh.


29 posted on 04/08/2011 10:51:41 AM PDT by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: Allegra

Oh yeah, he’s stylin’ and he knows it.


30 posted on 04/08/2011 11:47:13 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
In the Sonoran Desert...pussy chases you!
31 posted on 04/08/2011 11:58:22 AM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: TSgt
I initially made a similar mistake.


32 posted on 04/08/2011 3:56:23 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: RichInOC

BAD Rich!


33 posted on 04/08/2011 7:01:59 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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